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Contours to Sub-Meshes

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Intro​

Convert Path Contours within Shapes into sub-meshes so that individual Contours can be manipulated.

This Layer converts the underlying mesh structure of a Shape which will have no visible effect on a Shape until other Behaviours that support sub-meshes are added after it.

UI​

Keep Holes - When checked, Contours within Contours are treated as holes and 'grouped'. Note that a Contour must be entirely within another Contour to be predictably treated as a hole.

Example
  1. Using the Pen tool, draw several closed Contours. Do not deselect the Shape as you draw to ensure all Contours are drawn within the same Shape.
  2. Click the Editable Shape's Deformers attribute + button and choose Contours to Sub-Meshes.
  3. Click the Editable Shape's Deformers attribute + button and choose Sub-Mesh.
  4. Navigate to the Sub-Mesh's Fill tab and check Replace Fill.
  5. Right click the Sub-Mesh's Color attribute > Add Array > Color Array.
  6. Click the Color Array's + Add button twice to add two more indices to the array and set some colours.

Each Contour drawn on step one will be applied a color from the Color Array.